If you’re a fan of Bravo’s “Top Chef,” you may want to join the rooftop party Saturday, May 12 at NeueHouse Hollywood.

Brooke Williamson, Bruce Kalman and Jonathan Waxman are teaming up with several other culinary stars for “Food for Thought,” an evening of food, craft cocktails, music and a live auction benefiting the children in the community of Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti.

“Some of these people have supported us for years, but I just can’t say enough about the generosity of these chefs,” said Dan Cutforth, a “Top Chef” producer who along with his wife, Julie, started a charity that provides education for children and teens.

Their foundation Pou Timoun (which translates to For the Children in Haitian Creole) also partners with the volunteer program Haitian American Caucus: Haiti to serve over 500 children, including 200 children from local orphanages.

The money raised also benefits Pou Timoun’s newly opened youth home with 13 residents, ages 13 to 16. Kids age out of the orphanage at age 16, leaving them with no options.

“Education is a huge challenge in Haiti,” Dan said. “Most of us have grown up in countries where education is a right, not a privilege, and where you can always get it for free. For the most part in Haiti, education isn’t free. So there’s a lot of obstacles for children.”

“If you don’t finish high school, you’re destined to a lifetime of hard physical labor or prostitution to survive and to put a roof over your head,” Julie added. “It’s so crazy these kids might be able to go to school for a little while but not complete their education because they couldn’t pay for it.

“So we built a youth home,” she said, adding money raised in past fundraising events have helped pay for the land, fund the construction, supply solar panels, dig wells and provide furnishings.

The plan, Dan said, is to build still more homes on the property.

It was two weeks after the Haiti earthquake of 2010 that the Cutforths were moved to host their first fundraising dinner, calling on the Voltaggio brothers, Bryan and Michael, and other well-known chefs.

“We learned how generous the chef community is,” Dan said. “Everyone wanted to jump in and help. People who couldn’t cook at the event wanted to donate dinners that we could auction off.”

“Vendors donated their food,” added Julie. “And bar companies donated the alcohol. I think it was cathartic for everyone. Everybody wanted to do something.

“And that was supposed to be that, one night,” she said. “We had no idea that fundraiser was going to lead to a lifelong connection to this place that we love now.”

Food for Thought

When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 12

Where: NeueHouse Hollywood, 6121 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles

Tickets: $200 or $350 for a VIP experience that includes a 6:30 p.m. chef meet-and-greet, craft rum tasting and other perks

Los Angeles Daily News reporter Sandra Barrera has been writing about entertainment and lifestyle topics since 1998. Before joining the Daily News in 2000, she was a reporter for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in Ontario where she helped launch the now-defunct entertainment magazine 72HOURS as its music writer. Her reporting career at the Daily News has included fashion coverage from the red carpet at Hollywood's biggest awards shows, home and garden trends with a particular focus on earth-friendly alternatives and a wide range of events, from theater to the latest happenings at Six Flags Magic Mountain.